Employment practices of multinationals in the Spanisch and German
Quick-Food sectors: low-road convergence?
T. Royle. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 10 (1):
51–71(2004)
Abstract
Autorenabstract: This article examines the labour relations practices
of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the German and Spanish quick-food
service sectors. The demand for greater profitability and lower costs
is leading to a greater standardization of work methods across a
widening range of food service operators, resulting in the gradual
elimination of more expensive, skilled and experienced workers, and
an increasingly non-union approach in employee relations practices.
The outcome involves increasing standardization, union exclusion,
low trust, low skills, and low pay. These sectoral characteristics
appear to outweigh both country-of-origin and host-country effects.
The findings therefore confirm continuing variation within national
industrial relations systems and the importance of sectoral characteristics
and organizational contingencies in understanding MNC cross-border
behaviour.
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Quick-Food sectors: low-road convergence?
%V 10
%X Autorenabstract: This article examines the labour relations practices
of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the German and Spanish quick-food
service sectors. The demand for greater profitability and lower costs
is leading to a greater standardization of work methods across a
widening range of food service operators, resulting in the gradual
elimination of more expensive, skilled and experienced workers, and
an increasingly non-union approach in employee relations practices.
The outcome involves increasing standardization, union exclusion,
low trust, low skills, and low pay. These sectoral characteristics
appear to outweigh both country-of-origin and host-country effects.
The findings therefore confirm continuing variation within national
industrial relations systems and the importance of sectoral characteristics
and organizational contingencies in understanding MNC cross-border
behaviour.
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of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the German and Spanish quick-food
service sectors. The demand for greater profitability and lower costs
is leading to a greater standardization of work methods across a
widening range of food service operators, resulting in the gradual
elimination of more expensive, skilled and experienced workers, and
an increasingly non-union approach in employee relations practices.
The outcome involves increasing standardization, union exclusion,
low trust, low skills, and low pay. These sectoral characteristics
appear to outweigh both country-of-origin and host-country effects.
The findings therefore confirm continuing variation within national
industrial relations systems and the importance of sectoral characteristics
and organizational contingencies in understanding MNC cross-border
behaviour.},
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